Yahya Goba

Yahya Goba (1977-) was a member of the Lackawanna Six cell of al-Qaeda.

Biography
Yahya Goba was born in 1977 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, but he was raised in Yemen before moving to western New York in 1996. He moved in with Kamal Derwish, an al-Qaeda recruiter, and they often had Islamic education sessions over pizza with 25 people. He attended the al-Farouq training camp in Afghanistan in April 2001 with other members of the "Lackawanna Six" cell of al-Qaeda, and in December 2003 he was sentenced to ten years in prison upon returning home.